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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Tineoidea » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Tineinae » Monopis » Yellow-headed Monopis Moth  - Hodges#0418.1 (Monopis pavlovskii)

Species Monopis pavlovskii - Yellow-headed Monopis Moth - Hodges#0418.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Tineoidea
Family Tineidae (Clothes Moths)
Subfamily Tineinae
Genus Monopis
Species pavlovskii (Yellow-headed Monopis Moth - Hodges#0418.1)
Hodges Number
0418.1
Range
China, Russia, Japan and Korea, but now introduced into our area- according to Bob Patterson, "It ranges at least from Brooklyn, New York to central Florida and west to Michigan."
Food
Unknown, but many related species are detritus feeders
Remarks
According to Bob Patterson, this species has been present for some time and is relatively common in Maryland, but only recently did he learn what it was from Jean-Francois Landry of Agriculture Canada.
See Also
Monopis monachella - White-headed Monopis
Internet References
pinned adult images and collection site map showing presence along east coast of United States (barcodinglife.org)
Moth Photographers Group - photographs of living and pinned adults.
Butterflies and Moths of North America - map and photograph of living adult.
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 10 June, 2007 - 12:05am
Additional contributions by Bob Patterson, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman
Last updated 27 August, 2009 - 4:24pm

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